At eighteen, Lin Wanyi signed a secret marriage agreement with Lu Mingchen for three years to save her family from ruin. She entered the Lu household expecting no fairy tale, but instead found herself caught in a humiliation trap carefully laid by her mother-in-law, Zhao Xiu'e, from tea splashed on her in public to an admission notice deliberately torn to pieces.
Zhao Xiu'e sneered, “A girl from the bottom of society thinks she's fit to marry into the Lu family?”
Everyone thought the orphan would wither away like a delicate flower. But Lin Wanyi quietly picked up the pieces, turning every humiliation into nourishment for her growth. Four years later, the up-and-coming designer “Lin” made a name for herself at an international design competition. As the spotlight focused on the brilliant young talent with an East Asian face, Zhao Xiu'e, seated in the audience and trying to curry favor with the newly prominent, realized in horror that the dazzling woman onstage, tightly protected by her son, was the “poor daughter-in-law” she had personally driven out of the house.
At that moment, hunter and prey had completely switched places.
